UAS VISION
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Once, and not so long ago, the armed forces had all the best toys. America’s information-technology industry was powered by military budgets, and consumer electronics fed on the scraps. Now, the roles are being reversed. And there are few better illustrations of that reversal than an unmanned aircraft called Razor.
Neoscape, a Boston-based creative studio, stumbled upon the idea of using UAS to capture footage for a property developer after Sean Tierney, interactive director, bought a Raspberry Pi and decided to build his own UAS—or “flying blender” as he puts it— using the Pi as his quad-copter’s brain.
Researchers are using a smartphone as the brains behind a small, inexpensive UAS – the phone enables it to find its way around enclosed indoor spaces without using GPS or a remote guide. Although it’s still at an early stage, the so-called SmartCopter could eventually make it safer and cheaper to scout out disaster scenes before human […]
In response to Amazon’s founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos unveiling plans for Amazon Prime Air, which allows the online retailer to use unmanned aircraft systems to deliver small packages, Waterstones has announced a bird-brained idea of its own.
Like undiscovered groves of giant redwoods, centuries-old living corals remain unmapped and unmeasured. Scientists still know relatively little about the world’s biggest corals, where they are and how long they have lived.The secret to unlocking these mysteries may lie with a shoebox-size flying robot.
Competition was in high gear at Kennedy Space Center recently when three teams piloted unique remote-controlled and autonomous aircraft through a demanding series of search-and-rescue tasks, capping off months of work that pushed NASA engineers outside their usual specialties.
Fed up with geese fouling the grass and water at its Petrie Island beaches, the City of Ottawa government is calling in UAS strikes. It’s proving amazingly effective, said Orléans Coun. Bob Monette. The place used to be haunted by as many as 140 geese, which can eat several pounds of grass in a day and […]
In Peru, unmanned aircraft are being used to monitor crops and study ancient ruins.They are equipped with a microcomputer, a GPS tracker, a compass, cameras and an altimeter, and can be easily programmed by using Google Maps to fly autonomously and return to base with vital data.